IAN FLEMING: A BIOGRAPHY By Andrew Lycett St. Martin’s Press, $29.99, 512 pages illustrated When it comes to James Bond on screen, viewers have their favorite actor to portray this unique brand of spy ...
From the first arresting moment in Nicholas Shakespeare’s biography “Ian Fleming: The Complete Man” it is clear that we are in good hands. At a hastily arranged funeral in a village church, Fleming’s ...
I’ve been an Ian Fleming aficionado since my teens, so I was pleased to read “Ian Fleming: The Complete Man,” the new biography by Nicholas Shakespeare. I contacted Mr. Shakespeare and asked him why ...
Filmmakers plans have the blessing of the James Bond creator's estate for the project that is being whispered about to buyers by K5 International. By Stuart Kemp “JFK, why do you mock me so. … Still ...
Exhaustive and compulsively readable, Lycett’s latest (first published in the U.K. in 1995) is billed as the first full-length Fleming biography to be published in America. Biographer Lycett (Dylan ...
Shakespeare writes in the biography (via IndieWire): “Since the mid-1950s, many well-known actors had been approached [to play Bond]. Gregory Ratoff had the arresting idea of having Bond played by a ...
James Bond is a British icon, but the fictional spy hero really was born in Jamaica, just as the Caribbean island gained its independence from the waning British empire. The relationship between ...
In their heyday, the Beatles and Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels marked the United Kingdom’s greatest exports. In 1964 alone, the Fab Four sold 25 million records in the United States. Fleming died ...
Ian Fleming was an Australian born character actor with credits in over 100 British movies. He is perhaps best known for playing Dr. John Watson in a series of Sherlock Holmes movies of the 1930s ...
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